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...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...
...tough fighting was bound to come. But he knew, too, that Japan's best chance to turn back this invasion-the period when the first troops were coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting an attack from the west...
...Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the fire raids on Tokyo and Nagoya rang in Jap ears like an overture to defeat. Moscow's denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact sounded like the very crack of doom...
...year-old marine, veteran of Iwo Jima, lay aboard a U.S. hospital ship, dying of a malignant growth in his throat...
...Future, turned out by radio's Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...